Bureaucrats Quotes - Page 4

• The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to pump more money into the system.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Pumps, Way

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.138, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats, precisely the same situation exists. We are lucky, indeed, if the needless bureaucrats are mere easy-going loafers. They are more likely today to be energetic reformers busily discouraging and disrupting production.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Taken, Support, Thieves

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.69, Crown Business

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• Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Demand, Reckless, Enterprise

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• Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst enemies...these attackers are unwittingly destroying the sources of their own livelihood. They kill the geese that lay the golden eggs - and don't know it!

  Leonard Read

  Teacher, Artist, Editors

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• Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.

  G. Harry Stine

  Technology, Years, Revolution

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• I do think that we'd do better if we just offered all the bureaucrats in the Department of Education very attractive early retirements. But whether you want to abolish the department is another matter. Maybe there's room for recruiting a lot of visionary people who would do very good things: develop new techniques, new ideas, foster innovative models, disseminate those ideas.

  Seymour Papert

  Retirement, Thinking, Ideas

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• We use our tax dollars to pay some bureaucrat to kill a mountain lion, dig a hole and bury this precious beast. No one gets to eat it, nobody gets to buy licenses, fees and taxes themselves. And that's only after a mountain lion has killed somebody! Oh my God! And the Osbournes are still No. 1!

  Ted Nugent

  Mountain, Dollars, Use

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• Last night, John McCain said that under the Democratic health care plan, a bureaucrat would stand between you and your doctor, as opposed to the Republican health care plan, where an accountant would stand between you and your health care.

  Jay Leno

  Night, Doctors, Care

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• I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Class, Taught, Ministry

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone to attempt to explain those drug-inspired fantasies in meaningful terms.

  Ted Nugent

  Meaningful, Thug, Government

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.

  Hugh S. Johnson

  Government, World, Immortality

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• Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Europe, Hollywood, Today

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Russell L. Ackoff (2006). “A Little Book of F-Laws”, p.12, Triarchy Press Limited

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• Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interests, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.

  John Stossel

  Party, Believe, Ideas

  "Arrogant Politicians" by John Stossel, abcnews.go.com. July 21, 2009.

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• Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.

  Mark Levin

  Mean, Past, Information Knowledge

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• ...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.

  Alben W. Barkley

  Jobs, Want, Definitions

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• Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Egypt, Moses, Stills

  Laurence J. Peter (1986). “The Peter Pyramid, Or: Will We Ever Get the Point?”, William Morrow

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• Even if her children or grandchildren are willing to spend their own money to keep grandma alive, when bureaucrats control the necessary technology or medication they may decide that it is not for sale.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, Grandma, Technology

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• I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Government, People

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• One of the things that I have encouraged President Trump to do, and I'm optimistic about this, is to take on directly the regulatory state; to take it on, to fire bureaucrats.

  Ted Cruz

  Optimistic, Fire, President

  Source: time.com

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• democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

  Anne Stevenson

  Philosophy, Thinking, Democracy

  ANNE STEVENSON “A RELATIVE STRANGER\”

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• Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

  James M. Buchanan

  Different, Incentives, Politician

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• Reagan thought that school prayer was important because it was crucial to begin each day reminding students that their inalienable rights came to them from their Creator and not from government bureaucrats.

  Paul Kengor

  Prayer, School, Rights

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.

  Shana Alexander

  Real, Doctors, America

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• Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

  Alexander Zinoviev

  Party, Law, People

  "Gorbachevism" by Alexander Zinoviev, 4th article, 1988.

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